Captain Ed feels that all three candidates should have made the time to attend this. I see this as a snub on the part of the Obama Campaign. I see this as him saying that he is black, but lets not involve ourselves those kind of people.. I am reminded of a fascinating book by Lawrence Otis Graham, Our Kind of People: Inside Americas Black Upper Class .

I think he is walking a fine line now: he can’t be seen as too exclusively involved with the Black Community or he will be seen as parochial. When President, you are everyone’s President, not just a representative of your race.

Have you ever listened to the recaps of these things on The Tavis Smiley Show or News & Notes?

They're absolutely ridiculous.

There are a few interesting panel discussions, and one or two panelists who aren't fruit loops, but for the most part it's the same aggregation of race hustlers, poverty pimps and political also-rans, including Tavis's lackwit friend from Princeton, spoken word impresario Cornel West.

Laura Ingraham did a segment on the SOTBU once and it was a typical freak show.

He disagreed with Wright on Farrakhan, too, but he’s still a radical lefty. Republicans use social programs to keep potential business competition down and put off needed military actions for margins today. Thus, McCain... Hillary is the same kind of socialist but with more genocidal/eugenic intentions (man-hater, family-hater...remember Reno). Obama is a make-work, labor socialist who’ll try to please everybody and draw a different kind of fire (Sinclair, Mafia, race-related, etc.).

There are your choices, volks. I’ll be honest with all readers of this thread on something.

IMO, keep Hillary out any way that you can do so now, because you can’t afford to risk having her in office. She’s the establishment’s punisher for both parties of the corporate/socialist regime, and she’ll put your families down.

Then support McCain. After McCain is elected, legally and honorably show your disagreement with the people running our system. Express negativities against the politics and business of today at every opportunity.

Does Obama think he’s above the very people he claims to want to help?
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Obama is very astutely placing himself ABOVE RACISM. To help people is one thing, but to pander to racism is yet another. A large part of Obama’s appeal comes from blacks and young people who hold racism (the likes of Jackson and Sharpton) in very low regard. Another poster noted it well, in that when you are President, YOU ARE THE PRESIDENT OF ALL THE PEOPLE, not just one sector of our society. Today’s Washington politicians have done a VERY POOR job of upholding that reality.

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